The New England Regional Coordination Center (NERCC) is a collaboration of sites encompassing twelve of the top academic medical centers in New England: Massachusetts General Hospital (the Coordinating Site) and twelve satellite and performance sites: Baystate Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Vermont Medical Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and Maine Medical Center. Our RCC serves a large and diverse patient population from across New England, including both a dedicated Children’s Hospital, a Rehabilitation Hospital, and multiple Comprehensive Stroke Centers.
As a region, we have consistently scored highly on performance measures developed by the NIH StrokeNet. Our RCC has made significant contributions across the spectrum of acute, inpatient, and recovery trials. Made possible by our long history of regional partnership, well-developed stroke services, wide TeleNeurology Network, and experience in a wide array of research activities, the NERCC is committed to recruitment, retention and high-quality data capture as a participating NIH StrokeNet center. Sites in the NERCC are currently involved with ASPIRE, CLARITY, CREST-2 LOE, I-ACQUIRE, FOCAS, MINUTE, SATURN, SleepSMART, TeleRehab-2, VERIFY, FASTEST, SISTER, STEP, and CAPTIVA.